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Making Healthy Eating Easy

Knowing how to make healthy dietary choices and actually doing it can be two different things. Creating new habits and patterns around shopping, cooking,...
Our plates and glasses are full of ultraprocessed foods (like soda, juice drinks, sugar-sweetened artificially colored yogurt, and all manner of refined-carb goodies) that research now shows are clearly bad for our health.

Study Confirms Ultraprocessed Foods are Bad for Health

A recent study reviewed results from 45 pooled analyses on the health impacts of ultraprocessed foods (UPFs). Together, these studies include 9.9 million participants....

Curbing Food Cravings

We need to eat. Our bodies cannot function without the calories, nutrients, and fluids foods provide. But there are many other reasons we eat....

Soul Food!

While many people have comfort foods they say are “good for their soul,” the term “soul food” specifically refers to the food traditions that...

100% Fruit Juice Intake Associated with Weight Gain

While sugar-sweetened beverages are generally recognized as being bad for our health, 100% fruit juice has a bit of a “health halo”—we assume it’s...

Replace Animal-Based with Plant-Based Foods for Cardiometabolic Health

In the first meta-analysis of its kind, researchers summarized and evaluated evidence from 37 studies looking at the health impact of replacing animal-based foods...

Grass-fed vs Grain-fed Beef

Q: Is there really a difference in the nutritional value of meat from grass-fed and grain-fed cattle? A: Judith C. Thalheimer, RD, LDN, executive...

Spring Veggies

While most vegetables are now available year-round, May is the month gardens and farms across the U.S. start offering up their bounty in earnest....

Consuming Plant Protein in Midlife Can Help Women Age Well

A new study lead by Tufts University researchers suggests choosing plant protein in place of animal protein throughout midlife may increase the odds of...

Intake of Dietary Fiber Associated with Lower Risk of Death

Results from an analysis of 64 studies with a total of more than 3 million participants supported prior findings that dietary fiber intake is...